There are many ways that adversarial and inquisitorial procedures, socalled, can be distinguished and perhaps it is a mistake to emphasize any one
to the exclusion of others, but for brevity's sake I will make the easiest and
most obvious distinction between them: inquisitorial procedure leaves the development of evidence to official investigators who conduct an inquest and
produce an official file (dossier) on which the case will be litigated; adversarial
procedure leaves it to the litigants to develop the facts and the evidence in
support of their respective positions and then leaves it to them to adduce as
much of this evidence as they want for the neutral and passive fact-finder/
adjudicator to consider in deciding the case.

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